Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 3:38 pm

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Chicki wrote:

ashley wrote:

It's lentil week for me. Lentil hummus with carrots for lunch, and mujaddara with kale for dinner. That should last me most of the week. Boring but cheap! I could probably work lentils into my morning smoothies, but no.

Lentil hummus! Red lentils? recipe please!! that sounds yum. I love lentils, and have a ton in my pantry

I'm not the original poster of the lentil hummus thing, but I make this recipe and it is tasty! I add some cumin powder, too.

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Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:03 pm

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allularpunk wrote:

Chicki wrote:

ashley wrote:

It's lentil week for me. Lentil hummus with carrots for lunch, and mujaddara with kale for dinner. That should last me most of the week. Boring but cheap! I could probably work lentils into my morning smoothies, but no.

Lentil hummus! Red lentils? recipe please!! that sounds yum. I love lentils, and have a ton in my pantry

I'm not the original poster of the lentil hummus thing, but I make this recipe and it is tasty! I add some cumin powder, too.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:48 pm

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I used brown lentils and didn't use a recipe. I just cooked a cup of lentils and used them in place of chickpeas - didn't do anything else out of the ordinary. I liked it! I've also used red lentils before, and it turned out more or less the same.

I enjoyed last week's mujaddara so much, I made it again this week. Also, I winged a bread pudding using some sourdough bread I've had in my freezer for months and a forgotten pint of soy creamer from the back of my fridge. It turned out SO GOOD.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:10 pm

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Meal plan for this week:

Tonight's dinner is going to be leftover baked falafel I made on Sunday with hummus and salad (recipe from AFR, first time making it on Saturday, will definitely be a repeat). Going to make curry chickpeas and greens from AFR tonight for lunches this week. Last night I made a huge pot of black beans and I'm planning on making toasted cumin black bean and quinoa salad for dinner tomorrow(AFR, got the book 3 weeks ago and am slowly working my way through all the recipes). Going to use the rest of the black beans for burrito bowls and possibly black bean burgers in the rest of the week as well.

Super excited to try out some of these recipes, this is the second week in a row I have been good about planning out my meals for the whole week. Hoping I can manage to keep this good habit when school starts up in the fall.

I cooked a big pot of chickpeas over the weekend so I'm going to make some hummus for lunches, and I'm cooking the white beans for the sausages and bowls right now. I baked two loaves of bread today so that should last us a while, and I made extra pizza dough to freeze last week so that's already taken care of, and I have a ton of basil that I harvested and pureed with oil and froze that I will use for the pesto.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:26 pm

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I don't know about every day, but I know about tomorrow: a panini. I love paninis. I put mustard on one side and green pepper jelly on the other. Then I put in tomato slices, clover sprouts, squash, zucchini, portobello mushrooms, mint leaves, Daiya pepperjack shreds, green pepper slices, and vegan turkey slices. It's AMAZING.

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Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:23 pm

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Right now, I've got kalamata-studded rosemary focaccia dough rising from VCON to use as an accompaniement to this week's meals. I'll make mini foccacias with it--either eight or six, depending on how much dough I have. They also freeze well if I can't eat it all this week.

I've got a butternut squash chunks a'roastin in the oven. Roasted the seeds and seasoned them for breakfast.

I've made a batch of lentils and am soaking black beans.

I will make some guac.

I'm about to wash and massage some kale.

These are for test recipes so I won't get too specific but healthy and delicious things!

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:08 pm

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I get so inspired reading this thread! I need to get back in the habit of making stuff on the weekends for the rest of the week (bread, seitan etc)

here is what I have going this week:

Brinner! Cornmeal blueberry pancakes, hash browns and sausage. (I was lazy and did gimmie lean sausage) Had this last night, it was great. I promised my man that we would do brinner at least once a week

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 1:49 pm

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I'm making some freezer stuff today: I just made a veg pasta sauce with tomatoes and white beans to freeze, although I'm eating a serving for lunch now and it's not out of this world faboo or anything, but it's a perfectly fine sauce and is super easy, cheap, filling, healthy and tasty. I've made it semi regularly over the years.

I'm making Vegan Diner's Jambalaya as I've made it before, I love it, and know it freezes well from past experience.

I made a salad dressing (House dressing from Get it Ripe) for the veg salad I'm making to go with the jambalaya. Actually, I'm not sure that particular dressing goes well with jambalaya specifically, but I love the dressing anyhoo so I'll know I'll enjoy the meal, whether or not it's a perfect match.

Also making from Chloe's Kitchen the Orange You Glad I Made Tofu which is crispy tofu served in an orange sauce over rice and I bought some lactinato kale to steam with that--but I wish I'd bought broccoli, which would actually be a better choice but d'oh dint think of that in the store. So I'll have my fried tofu and white rice with leafy greens! This I will not freeze because that won't work and will just have as leftovers over the next couple of days.

I bought Dreena Burton's Let Them Eat Vegan! recently and am making the quinoa nicoise, probably early in the week as with all of the above, I might have TOO MUCH FOOD, even with the freezer stuff. But I have to make it within the next couple of days so the ingredients are still fresh.

Lotsa food but lots of it is going in the freezer anyhoo so I have food just to heat up on busy worknights.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:38 pm

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This week is the first full week of classes for my master's program (eek! 8 graduate credits + full time job = crazy old me). Anyways, that means every Sunday is going to be my cooking/prepping day for the whole week cause the last thing I wanna do is come home at 8-9pm and still need to make myself dinner. Yesterday I pulled together:

A huge batch of red lentil hummus - going to be used for sammwiches, on top of salads, dip for veggies for emergency snacks in between work and class. Cesar Chavez Dressing from AFR - I made the Cesar Salad with Eggplant Bacon yesterday for lunch, YUM that dressing is amazing and the eggplant bacon is awesome. That dressing is going to be on top of big lunch salads the rest of the week with freshly cooked chickpeas I made yesterday as well. Curry Care Free Burgers from ppk blog - super excited to try these, I used left over Chana Masala (also from ppk blog, much love Isa) I have all the fixings for delicious sammwiches with these (avocado, caramelized onion...). Portobello mushroom salad with mustard dressing from Veganomicon - also excited to try this recipe, already from the looks of it seems like it will be a repeat (omni BF will eat anything as long as it has mushrooms on it, esp. portobellos).

Needless to say, this week I am trying to harness all the energy possible via veggies to keep me going.

Post subject: Re: Sunday thread: What are you making for dinner this week?

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:16 pm

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Today, in an attempt to use my CSA share more effectively, I cooked a bunch of stuff to eat all week long. I made:Black Beans and Squash, with rice.A tofu fritatta with mushrooms, kale and dillA mess of ginger garlic greens (a mish-mash of everything I thought I wouldn't eat if I left it much longer--turnip and radish greens, and arugula, spinach, and bok choi).Miso glazed turnipsThe Cesar Chavez Salad from AFR.Plain old chick peas, to use later.

My reasoning is that I'm much more likely to eat food that is prepared than ingredients. I feel accomplished. And tired.

Because of the ingredients I need to use up I'm thinking about the following menus for the rest of the week, but of course that also depends on the new vegetables we're going to get:- roti- seitan piccata with green beans (V'con)